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• Indonésie : Les attentats de Jakarta financés avec des fonds de Daech, 12 arrestations
  18 janvier 2016, par siawi3

  Les autorités en Indonésie et dans d’autres pays d’Asie du Sud-Est à majorité musulmane redoutent depuis des mois d’éventuelles attaques de militants revenant chez eux après être partis faire le jihad dans les rangs de l’EI.

• Hudud and the Struggle for Malaysia’s Constitutional Soul
  13 July 2015, by siawi3

  The State Assembly of Kelantan, one of the 13 states of Malaysia, unanimously passed amendments to the 1993 Sharia Criminal Code, providing for the implementation of a range of Islamic criminal law punishments (hudud) in the state. Those laws should apply to Muslims, not to the non-Muslim citizens of Malaysia. Zina ( sex outside marriage) provisions pose a particular threat to women and LGBT people…
  Fundamentalists have been trying for a long time to introduce hudud laws, but it contravenes with the constitution. Now the constitutionality of their bill is being challenged in the High Court.

• L’Etat islamique menace directement la Chine
  3 mars 2017, par siawi3

  Dans une vidéo diffusée depuis l’Irak, l’organisation cherche à recruter des combattants parmi les vingt millions de musulmans chinois.

• A wave of homophobia in Indonesia
  7 March 2016, by siawi3

  LGBT are under attack from the state representatives to the medical establishment and the religious right, and they face police repression.

• China restricts fasting in Ramazan for Xinjiang govt staff, minors
  10 June 2016, by siawi3

  China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to the more than 10 million strong mostly Muslim Uighur minority. It has also ordered restaurants to stay open. The region sees regular clashes between Uighurs and state security forces, and Beijing has blamed deadly attacks there and elsewhere in China on militants seeking independence for the resource-rich region.

• The Sexual Abuse Of Cambodia’s History Is No Longer Invisible
  25 June 2015, by siawi3

  Prosecutors and court investigators have spent a decade amassing evidence of torture and murder in prisons, of forced relocations and forced labor all around the country, of genocide against minorities. But the legal investigators, like so many historians before them, largely missed one of the most common crimes of the Khmer Rouge, the crime that would come to define the lives of women like Chan: sexual violence.

• China: Ahead of March 8, Women’s Rights Activists Detained in Several Cities
  9 March 2015, by siawi3

  China detained at least 10 women’s rights activists over the weekend to forestall a nationwide campaign against sexual harassment on public transportation that would overlap with International Women’s Day, according to human rights advocates and associates of the detained activists.

• How Did #MeToo Get Started In China? Not Even Government Censorship Can Silence It
  11 January 2018, by siawi3

  The movement has been slower to catch on in China, though, where social and political movements are often suppressed. However, the tide is slowly beginning to turn, as some women in China are launching their own #MeToo movement, called #WoYeShi, and making history with their activism.

• Japan - South Korea: Probe casts shadow over ‘comfort women’ deal
  27 December 2017, by siawi3

  The issue of comfort women – young Asian women who staffed wartime brothels for Japanese troops during World War II – is perhaps the most contentious legacy of Japan’s militaristic past. When the comfort-women issue first arose in the early 1990s, after South Korean democratization in 1987, renewed calls were made for compensation of individual comfort women. In response, Tokyo, together with private businesses, raised the “Asian Women’s Fund” to pay compensation to survivors, along with a signed letter of apology from Japan’s prime minister.

• Indonesian Baker Won’t Write “Merry Christmas” on Cake for Religious Reasons
  26 December 2017, by siawi3

  An Indonesian baker refused to make a cake citing the fact that the customer’s requested message went against the owner’s religious beliefs. The question for Indonesians in the predominantly Muslim nation is whether it would’ve been okay for an owner to act the same way if a customer wanted the cake to celebrate “Idul Fitri,” or Eid al-Fitr (the end of Ramadan).

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